Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee among Those Mocking Common Core Opponents with Unicorns

A group of Common Core supporters resorting to mocking parents and other opponents of the boondoggle education initiative is studded with likely GOP presidential candidates, establishment Republican governors, top corporations, and the primary private funder of Common Core himself–Bill Gates.

Funded by PAC Alliance for Better Classrooms, the group purports to ridicule opponents of the unproven Common Core standards with the theme that “most of the things you’ve heard about Common Core” are not real, either.

With no independent studies whatsoever under their belts to prove the Common Core standards are “higher” or “more rigorous” than other standards, the group of mainly establishment, anti-conservative politicians, and education elites continue the same talking points they have put forward for the past five years about their pet reform. The group claims myths such as:

The standards tell teachers what to teach.

The standards will result in a national database of private student information.

The federal government will take over ownership of the standards initiative.

These standards amount to a national curriculum for our schools.

Common Core standards are not any better than previous standards.

Common Core standards take control away from schools/teachers/parents.

Common Core standards mandate more student testing.

Last week, as discussion about education took center stage in the Louisiana legislature, a stuffed unicorn was placed on the desk of State Rep. Brett Geymann (R), who has spearheaded the anti-Common Core efforts in the Louisiana State House.

Louisiana parent grassroots activist Anna Arthurs told Breitbart News she understood more stuffed unicorns would be delivered to all lawmakers in the state. She said attached to the unicorn is a card with the group’s slogan, “Unicorns are not real and neither are most of the things you’ve heard about Common Core.”

“Of course, what they list as myths are actually facts, and vice versa,” Arthurs said. “The PAC has been put together by a man named Lane Grigsby, a very successful pro-Common Core businessman who is one of the largest political contributors in our state and uses his money to influence our legislators and legislation.”

The following is a list of all the supporters of “Unicorns Are Not Real” who have resorted to ridicule of the conservative base of the Republican Party, which opposes Common Core:

ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS

Chairman Conrad Appel, Louisiana Senate Education

Ryan Aument, Pennsylvania State Representative

Haley Barbour, Former Governor of Mississippi

Bill Bennett, Former U.S. Secretary of Education to President Ronald Reagan

“This action of mockery of the anti-common core legislators as well as citizens is the height of arrogance and insult coming from this group,” Arthurs stated. “It is unbelievable that these supporters think it is okay to set up a website such as this and then to place one of these stuffed animals on the desk of one of the most dedicated legislators we have in the House.”

Arthurs said two supporters of the Unicorns group–Chairman of the Louisiana Senate Education Committee Sen. Conrad Appel and Chairman of the State House Education Committee, Rep. Steve Carter–indicated they are planning to kill any anti-Common Core legislation that comes to their committees.

“What blatant abuse of their power and disregard for the legislative process in our state,” said Arthurs. “I guess the only positive I can find in this is that this action proves that supporters of ‘Unicorns’ only have stuffed animals to offer our legislators, while we bring actual facts and research to them.”

Geymann said he was stunned that public officials and professionals would stoop to ridiculing parents concerned about their children’s education.

“I find it very offensive that the arrogance of the elitists has led to the mocking of parents in public,” Geymann told Breitbart News. “To equate a mother who is fighting for her child to a person who believes in unicorns is unacceptable and pathetic.”

Geymann states the members of the PAC should resign immediately.

“They have crossed over the line of public debate and determined themselves to be part of the ruling class,” he asserted. “We intend to stop them.”